According to a top-secret document provided to The Guardian by Edward Snowden, the NSA shares intelligence with its Israeli counterparts without removing information about U.S. citizens; another document ranks Israel as 'the third most aggressive intelligence service against the U.S.'

The U.S. National Security Agency is routinely sharing American citizens' private data with Israeli intelligence services, a secret document leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden shows, the Guardian reported on Wednesday.

According to the report, intelligence being passed by the U.S agency to Israel is likely to include American citizens' phone calls and emails.

The five-page document which outlines the data-sharing agreement, struck between the two countries in March 2009, repeatedly mentions the need to upkeep American citizens' constitutional rights to privacy. While stipulating that data passed to Israeli hands must be treated by the Israeli intelligence services in accordance with U.S. law, no legal obligations are attached, the document shows.

Israeli intelligence services are allowed "to disseminate foreign intelligence information concerning U.S. persons derived from raw Sigint [signal intelligence] by NSA," on the condition that it does so "in a manner that does not identify the U.S. person," the document, which has been published in full at the Guardian's website, says.

The revelations over the NSA's programs have recently been the the focus of intense scrutiny over what is seen as widespread privacy violations.

The Israeli embassy in London responded to the Guardian report, saying "we don't comment on leaked documents."

In another top-secret document shared with the Guardian and dated 2008, a senior NSA official is quoted as saying that Israel aggressively spies on the U.S. According to the official, "On the one hand, the Israelis are extraordinarily good Sigint partners for us, but on the other, they target us to learn our positions on Middle East problems… A [National Intelligence Estimate] ranked them as the third most aggressive intelligence service against the U.S."

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indicate that most people feel this is acceptable in order to prevent
terror. All those who are outraged by this are only heros where terror
does not concern them personally. They would sing a different tune if
they and their families become targets.

it would turn out that many of them have committed much more serious
crimes than Jonathan Pollard. I'm certain the Israeli govt. knows about
these spies, but is afraid to take any steps against them, for fear of
alienating the US. So any espionage Israel does in the US is entirely justified.

You're making up stories to make yourself feel better about Pollard's
betrayal. If Israel catches any US Pollards spying on Israel, then
lock 'em up and trade 'em for Pollard, if you want. Until then, kindly
keep your fantasies to yourself.

You truly dont know just how much Uncle Sam needs that shitty little
country. You speak with no knowkledge because if you were in teh know
you would not post such hogwash. No go get yourself an education on why
Uncle Sam needs ISral and then post from some position of knowledge not
out of emotional rhetoric.

Let's not get too worked up about this. American tax payers will never
learn from their own media that their tax dollars are being used by
Israel in a myriad ways to spy on them. This is necessary if we are to
keep murdering foreign nuclear physicists in order to prevent them
catching up with our own nuclear weapons.

I imagine that the Israeli intelligence services share intelligence on
Israeli citizens with the NSA I imagine the Israeli services also
intercept calls made on smartphones and emails just like the NSA. This
is how things work in the global intelligence community, they all share
all sorts of information with each other. It might shock us all because
they make a great effort to hide these facts from the public but thats
how the system does and always has worked and in the digital age all
thats changed is interception methods and the information gathered.

the blockbuster leaks have yet to drop, according to Greenwald. Most
likely Snowden encrypted the files with a key that had a calculated
level of security, in other words one week, two weeks, etc, rather than
uncrackable, as an extra measure of security for himself. You can be
sure hundreds of people have downloaded the files and are bruteforcing
them, so it's only a matter of time.

Liberty was not an innocent shipo on a cruise in teh Med. She was
passing info on to egypt about ISraeli actions. Liberty had to be
silenced. US put her in harms way with specific orders, she did what she
was told and no one expected ISrael to attack. But liberty was not some
innocent warship whatsoever

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